Eric Garner died in a similar manner in 2014 and was an infinitely more sympathetic victim (killed for selling loose cigarettes and not paying a tax on them, WTF?), yet there was nothing like the Fentanyl Floyd protests. I guess it was "right time, right place" for Floyd.
Slate star codex/Scott alexander has a good essay on why. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
It's got nothing to do with timing, there was another death right around the same time as Garner (the Brown-Fergeson thing) which did get some protests and traction. Not quite as big as Floyd, but pretty big. But Eric didn't. Why then if not timing? It's precisely because Gardner was sympathetic and because and even those on the right would agree 'yeah that's a bit much' that his cause was mostly useless to the left. You can't signal to your insane commie ingroup how 'virtuous' you are for supporting Eric Garner, because everyone already agrees it was unfair and maybe worth protesting over, even fox news is muttering that it was too much, poor Eric. This makes it useless for its true purpose, sorting and signalling. It only gets tacked-on to the Brown case and Ferguson riots as 'another example' of police brutality to help lend it credibility, as a rhetorical attack. Same way that Breonna Taylor was used in the Floyd discussions (not that she was perfectly innocent, but that case is far muddier, more akin to Garner's)
And then along comes Floyd. Now here is a useful display of my leftist credentials. Only an true believer would look at this piece of shit and care. So he's perfect. That's why Floyd kicked off, precisely because he was scum.
Look at the incentives, and remember they are evil and seeking to signal to other sick degenerates how evil they are. That's why Brown and Floyd became big things while Garner didn't. Garner never could no matter when it happened. It had to be someone like Floyd. Yes timing will affect the magnitude of the rioting, but it can never be over a case like Garner's.
Not 52% from their behaviour?
Meanwhile, the government is attempting to head off the problems brought on by Vienna’s exploding Muslim population
Heh
I am sick and tired of being lied to in my face. "hurr durr inflation is only 2.3%"
They tripled the money supply AND reduced all the supply of goods and services. Inflation from that will be at least 200%. The only reason it wasn't that immediately was that velocity also plummeted as everything shut down and people stopped buying things.
It's the most obvious lie, yes.
Look into how they calculate CPI. It's not a stable basket of goods, instead, as good meat and fresh veg become too expensive, what happens is people shift to shit cuts of meat and ramen/rice, products which are cheaper and/or which haven't had the inflation hit them so hard. Which then means they stop weighting meat so heavily in their CPI calculations because people are buying less of it. The inflation is there, but the way they calculate it is designed to hide it.
Weights are fair to a point. If there's a huge cyclone that hits queensland and all bananas here are 3x the normal price, sure, take them out of the calculation for that year. And sure, horse-buggies aren't exactly a huge portion of most people's spending anymore while home computers are. It's fair to occasionally re-evaluate the basket weights. But they way they have it set up will automatically hide inflation.
Yeah, the US nuked the catholic cities,
It’s great to see these more pro-Catholic posts continue into his presidency. We had the Michaelmas post, a few others, and now Palm Sunday. Not just Christmas and Easter. Does he have some Catholic or Catholic-adjacent or orthobro advisor or something?
Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
Doesn't mean it's good, there is that risk. But it's better.
No, I’m satisfied that your argument was countered and your questions answered. I’m not going to play those games, you were clearly making an argument through that line of questioning.
He allowed the temple to fall, and the ark to fall into enemy hands and become lost. Usually when the people fell to sin and rebellion right?
Your argument also falls down when you realise people arguing about it when they were first removed could have made the exact same argument, but against their removal. And we still can when looking at time. He’d allow it to be wrong throughout most of church history?
the old law books near the beginning (Leviticus, Numbers) are easy to get bogged down in and don't really add much for a first time reader.
Great point. Reading it from genesis to revelations is not the best way to start and those law books and the genealogies and the cubit measurements all near the start puts many people off. Those can wait, if it means reading more of it, read other books first.
Start with Mathew or Luke imo, they have more of Jesus’s teachings compared to Mark. John gives a more literary and mystical take compared to the other 3, the synoptic gospels, go for that next.
Douay-Rheims is the old og catholic translation, from before the kjv, by a few years* (the modern one most buy is an update of this of course)
It has the dueterocannonical books like Tobit (Tobias), which some prots call the ‘apocrypha’ (calling it that helps them to justify to themselves their taking out books of the bible I guess). Doesn’t include Jubilees, that one is truely apocryphal. It also has some old naming and follows the organisation of the original Septuagint (the og Greek translation), so that some of the psalms (after psalm 10 IIRC) are numbered 1 lower, until nearly the end.
I think the Douay Rheims is very important but it’s clunky in the same way the kjv is. If you’re wanting the easiest of reads, this isn’t it. But its old, predates the modern nonsense, includes all the books the faithful had been using since the beginning*. There’s a lot to be said for having it be one of your main bibles.
There’s a nice side-by-side version of it with the Latin vulgate from baronius press.
yeah, better post it on facebook.
oh shit, it's time to panic then.
ok boomer.
yeah I heard that growing up for sure. It was common at least.
When they aren't receiving the police protection that legit groups and protests should be getting but don't. More legit groups either get trampled OR the police let them clash with the feral mob when outnumbered. Not patriot front though, the police escort them to their unmarked trucks.
When each time they get unmasked it doesn't end up being some aspiring-fed politics student or bullshit or a known fed,
When they don't look like they are fresh from that post justice for jan-6 entrapment thing.
The younger right wingers are more racist than the older right wingers basically..
Reject that marxist framing my brother.
Which is kind of bizarre. I always thought that older people should be more angry about the state of affairs since they are the ones that know what things were like before, but actually its the younger people who become more extreme than the older people.
The boomers are the ones who sold us out and who benefit from the system that wont survive them. They made their money and got their positions, then brought in the shit. It takes an unusual amount of self awareness and humility to admit you were wrong. It's relatively easy to call out the errors when you don't have a chance of getting your own house.
And they believe Patriot Front is legit.
So they're retarded. Shame.
The fucking vietnamese are as bad as the chinese for theft of IP and slapping their own name on it. I agree with the japs.
Go further
Reject them, even in games set in africa.
You don't win a fight by starting at the compromise position.
The only true women are biologically male who identify as women and only true men are biologically women who identify as men.
(I tried to give a rationale for it, but the more I tried to come up with a rationale, the more it started to sound like something a leftist would actually believe because I started invoking words like "Cisgender" and then realized just leaving that statement as is, is more sufficient and crazy sounding than explaining it)
A cis woman no more knows what it means to be a woman than a fish understands water. It cannot, being born into it, they do not think about it. It is only the trans woman who was born and assigned as a male, told they were male all their life, and has had to intimately wrestle with what it means to be a woman who can even begin to understand what it really means. They had to learn about it on their own, rather than be taught it through immersion because of a hateful and misogynistic system while growing up, many are deprived of that right. Look at language. The 'native' English speakers know none of its rules, but ask someone who learnt it as a second language has studied it and can tell you all about its grammar and quirks. That is the understanding that transwomen must develop.
Ez m8. Fuck, might be fun to polish that up and submit it sokal-style
Homosexuality is an obligation. Transing yourself is an obligation.
so in about 10 years their stuff might not be infected. K, cya then.
Ok boomer
Nah bro, people mean boomer, and those with a boomer mindset. It’s not all gen x, they’re mostly chill.
Yeah a lot of that chinesium printer stuff is a bit dangerous. You hear about thermal runaway and this stuff happening, and how shoddy it all is, in that community all the time.
For somebody who just wanted more good art, then they would welcome more tools for the sake of creativity and fast prototyping.
They do. But that's not what the generative ai slop is. The digital sculptors are largely all on board with ai powered auto uv unwrap and remeshing stuff for example. It's just tedious work that gets in the way of the more enjoyable creative parts of the process, is done algorithmically anyway by a lot of people, and depending on the workflow, doesn't have to be all that good, just passable. If you're making a 3d render of your collectable figurine, near enough is good enough for the UVs and mesh. You don't need it perfect like a video game or cgi movie face would need to be. And then when you go to 3d print it, the majority of people absolutely rely on some automations and algorithms for orientation, hollowing and supports. Because it's tedious. You'd go in and manually check it after, and maybe redo a few pieces, but yeah, people use the automated tools for this all the time.
They're generally on board (if they weren't grognard anti-digital purists) with ai for those purposes. We could call this the 'technical' or 'tool' or 'tedium' ai tools. The artists are generally on board with this style of ai, and more would be if it were only this. It's generative ai where the problems are.
Generative ai proponents say that it (generative ai) can be used as a tool to enhance or speed up creativity or prototypes or as a reference.
No it can't be used for references, because it's not accurate. AI hallucinates things. Anatomy and details. So do other artists of course, but for the artist seeking references, that's then a choice that make and you'd deliberately have some reference of both types, some of the references you'd grab are real photos, and then for the other references you'd grab other artist's work for style and potentially pose and composition or 'fun details' but with the understanding that the anatomy/details might be wrong or deliberately ignored in parts to make the pose and composition work, or just for the sake of it looking cool. And you might say that that's what AI does too. But it's not, it's creating a plausible guess based on text associations about what a thing might look like, without it actually being accurate. So it can't be used for the first use case, anatomy/detail reference. And for style and comp? Just use the artist's art. You typed their name into the prompt (or got around in-built restrictions on that with other tools), or used a lora that is trained only on their art. Why take the inferior copy when you've got their art right there, just use their art. So it's not great for the other use case either. The only place left for ai in terms of reference is a kind of paradoilic rorschach style of reference which some artists like to use, where the original idea is drawn out from splotches or randomness. I'm not usually a fan of this, it feels too 'fluffy/airy' for me, but I will occasionally draw ideas from the water on the glass in the shower for this, the steam and water coming together in shapes. Even if we grant that ai can help with that style of 'reference', for that you only need the general sense of it, and Dalle-1 the trial version that was shitting out indistinct nonsense could do this 4 years ago.
But not only is it effectively useless for reference, it's made searching for reference so much harder than it used to be. That's the other issue and part of why artists are getting so annoyed by it. Not only is it not much use, generative ai has actually made things worse. They want a good reference, and searching for that is just bringing up thousands of crap images. 'baby peacock' is the classic example at the moment, the one people are pointing to. Try googling it and you'll find a lot of garbage. But this is happening with everything and often in far subtler ways than the peacock thing making it actually even more annoying. Thousands of seemingly plausible but inaccurate images that we do not want hiding everywhere. Good and accurate reference is becoming harder to find because of the generative ai shitting up the internet (and google searching by date hasn't been accurate for a good 8 years or so). And so it's actually making art harder to do, right at the very start of the process.
It's a huge shame the right ceded the arts to the left, because this then creates a lack of understanding of the process on the right, and a desire to hurt them (artists), or at least an indifference to their struggles. And that's natural. But I would rather see good art reclaimed by the right, and the left's trash thrown out, rather than have both burnt down. Generative Ai is not helping make good art. It is hindering it.
(UVs are the squares that determine the surface of your 3d model, that you then paint or project the textures onto, once you’ve sculpted everything. Think of your model as an orange, and you want to unpeel it and make it flat with as few seams as possible and with those seams on the rear side or up at the naval of the orange, so there isn't a nasty seam in the colours. And you want all the squares generally even in shape and size so any textures aren't stretched out. It's just tedious to do)
Yes BUT, we're not as connected to 20 other cucked countries. Let's say they did try to fix things in spain say. Well now France is fucked right? And the people can all travel and smuggle stuff from just across the sea right?
Australia is not doing well, but its distance from europe and the ME/north africa gives it some advantages.